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… THE STAR IN THE WEST Why do our thoughts so idly clatter ? I do not care one jot for matter , One jot for spirit , while you say One is pure ether , one pure clay .' In pure Idealism , objects have no independent exist ence ; but in the above , which is no less than pure Hylo -Idealism , they have . Yet none to the individual brain , until they have been brought into reciprocal relationship to it. If the outer world is an illusion , then the inner world of self is but a delusion , a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding sun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 238
…in the definition which he gives , Kant does not seem to have grasped the true conception of “ straight." ] Hume , Kant states , severed pure mathe matics from synthetic judgements à priori , and herein made a great mistake , as all mathematical judgements he asserts are synthetic . [ But is his dogmatism cor rect ? Crowley would disagree .] [(a.) Mathematics is analytic , because a parabola is but a name , and all its qualities are directly deducible from its definitions , etc. , etc. , and therefore contained therein , though not seen . ( 6) …
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…n , however , were motion , interaction , stimulus , and no response to stimulus rendered , not only a possibility , but a reality ; and Pure Being , thus enriched or fertilized by the double interaction , be came manifested as existence—that is , conditioned Being . Pure Being , the Unconditioned , the Absolute of Potentiality rolled round into pure Non -Being , the Unconditioned ; the Absolute of Impotentiality , emerged , energized , and conditioned , and became the Limited , the Relative . This is the groundwork of the Hegelian philosophy .…
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
… free - being , Kant says : “ In him no act would be born , and no act would perish .” In other words the “ free - being " is a " yogi " pure and simple . Kant's à priori takes the place of Hume's “ Ignor ance ,” which we have seen none other than Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Huxley , who was as astute a thinker as Hume : The succession of mental states in ideation is not for tuitous . Thus the idea of the word horse presented itself to my 3 ور was 1 Critique of Pure Reason , i, p . 304 . 2 The Bases of Morals , p . 87 . 3 Criti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
…dhi surpasses all rational quantities including Egotism and Altruism , Time and Space . Passing to that state beyond progress , which is pure freedom and divine Will , man reaches the stage when he ceases to think empirically under the schemata of Time and Space . The mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 236
…egomena , reducing his arguments to the terms of this all embrac ing philosophy . ( To aid the reader , I will place all criticisms of a purely Crowleyan savour in square brackets . ) Immanuel Kant finding his master David Hume enmeshed in the negative net of an excessive Pyrrhon ism , set out to free him from the tangled conception of cause . To accomplish this end , and to avoid falling into the same entanglement of empirical uncertainties ( physical ), groping about in the dark for some weapon which might enable him to free his unfortunate m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 275
…8 THE STAR IN THE WEST Which compares with : Till like the smoke of mountains risen at dawn , The cloud-veils of the Ain are withdrawn . Pure spirits rise to heaven , the bride . Pure bodies are as lamps below. The shining essence , glorified With fire more cold than fresh - fallen snow, And influences , white and wide , Descend , re -gather , kindle , grow , Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever . ' We might expect to find this idea in “ Tannhäuser,” and do in the following verse : This were my guerdon : t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
THE VIRGIN 95 Ah , if pure love could grow material ! There are pure women ! and this is her answer : There you make me laugh ! Remember-I have known such . But besides You ask hot snow and leaden feather - flights ! 1 Which contains a great truth , namely , that platonic love is no love at all . An affection it may be , but love it cannot be if it dare not see its form mirrored in the eyes of a loving woman . Its failure in the end is a certainty ; certain ascetics may compel their wills to conquer their natures , but men as a whole cannot . C…
1907 · PDF PAGE 240
…gh the Berkeleyan arguments backwards , he arrives at defining . [Thing as a (unknowable ) power to produce sense impressions , which is purely Berkeley or his antithesis according as the power is conceived as God or Matter . ] Here we have struck again the fundamental chain A , B , A , B , A , B. Having now settled with “ Pure Mathematics ,” he turns to “ Pure Natural Science ," again assuming at the outset apodictic laws of nature , which Berkeley also assumed , and which Hume proved to be sceptical ; such as “ substance continues permanent ”…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…haricles and Archais ; we will now view it in its maturer form , and firstly , in the form of true and sincere love , unconventional and pure , whether under the bond of marriage , or under the boundless bond of free love , between two souls of similar affinity . True love is a pure , unal loyed attraction , urging two souls from their inherited duality into their inherent oneness , that all are cap able of attaining , and yet so few attain ; and it is on account of the fewness of its adepts , that the magic of their worship has become to the c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 239
… places before his reader the crucial problem . “ How are synthetic propositions à priori possible ” ? And at the very outset , assuming pure synthetic knowledge from the Reason as real (p . 22 ), attacks the problem . “ How is it possible when a conception is given me , I can pass out of it , and connect it with another which is not contained in the former ," and explains the difficulty by assumed knowledge à priori. (Rendering Hume's position now impregnable , thanks to ethnology , etc. , etc. ) ; and then Kant asks , " How is pure mathematic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… “ Why Jesus Wept," we have the ephemeral and headstrong passion of youth ; whilst in “ The Tale of Archais we find it burning only as a pure and lambent flame , overcoming all adversity , sacrificing self - love and even self - honour to attain the ideal of its purpose . Love is the predominant power in the universe ; over and over again we shall find this enforced , greater than fame , than wealth , than glory , greater than knowledge ,
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…y or unknowingly , set the true lyre of Buddhism reverberating in her grand and noble prayer , “ The Choir Invisible .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
… And deadly passion that possesses The magic ecstasy of these Mad maidens , tender as blue seas .' For this is passion , if not quite so pure as some we have already seen , yet still passion of an unlustful nature . In “ The Flight ” we find in the following lines a still deeper glow : The snow -bright weather Calls us beyond the grassy downs , to be Beside the sea , The slowly breathing Ocean of the south . Oh , make thy mouth A rosy flame like the most perfect star Whose kisses are So red and ripe ! Oh , let thy limbs entwine Like love with m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…he still can say as she sees him stand before her , a fiendish monster , with the bloody razor with which he has just slain Madeline , a pure and innocent girl : Kill yourself. Such was her love , her duty to her motherhood ; very different indeed was the love of Ratoum . But anon . Another picture of maternal affection , this time more musical , we find in “ The Spring after, ” of “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " : No smallest cloud between me and my bride Came like a little mist ; one tender fear, Too sweet to speak of, closed the dying y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…nus waits for thee ! Draw back , look , hunger ! —and thy mouth is mine !" The vision of Elizabeth , the loved one of his boy hood - his pure ideal — rises before him . so delicate and frail , Far , white , and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God's .2 And he tells Venus of her . To which she answers : Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable , To formulate the formless ... 3 Again Tannhäuser bursts into song , one of those magnificent lyrics , flashing like a ruby , warm and flaming in the glowing gold of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 286
…and closer as we proceed along the way of the knowable — and perhaps actually becomes known when we ourselves become unknowable , i.e. , pure adepts . The second great principle is the Conservation of Matter and Energy , or in other words the law of Cause and Effect . A law we have gone to some length in demonstrating to be apodictically untenable , though highly probably à posteriori . Crowley , like Hume and Huxley , solely identifies it as a law based upon inference . This sequence of events is vividly demonstrated in “ The Mother's Tragedy …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
… “ unco gude ” may say , that of Alice and her lover is not . To adulterate is to debase ; but there is no debase ment here . Love burns pure as a flame , and if it is , as it is here , between a married woman and a lover | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 232 . 2 The Three Shadows , Rossetti . 3 In the second edition , the first edition began with White Poppy .
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…nd sublime Of human life . And from the other side of the sphere the melodious lines of Kalidasa reverberate with the same perfection of pure wifehood . In the Raghuvancha the step mothers of Rama greet Sita thus , when she blames herself for the misfortunes which befell her husband : Dear daughter , rise ! (So said they) “ 'Tis thy spotless life alone That brought thy Lord and Lakshman through their toils Triumphant .” Then with loving words and true They praised her, worthy wife of worthy Lord . What a melody lives in those words , “ 'Twas th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…ove conquers . The still horror creeps silently on , enveloping them in the shroud that man has woven as the garment of love : Since our pure shame unworthily destroys The love of all she had , her girls and boys , Her home , their lives : and yet my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion , and deters Her fear from spurning all the day's due joys ." The pudibonderie of the English would call this lust . Indeed , drunken on their own crapulous imagination , choked by their venomous vomit , they cannot see the divine form of Love through the m…